According to Osho, when witnessing feels distant, it means you’ve slipped into identification—with the child, the adult, the emotion. The remedy is to fall back into pure witnessing, dropping every label. As non-identification deepens, the gap closes, bondage dissolves, and your native freedom is revealed. In naked awareness you remember your true, eternal nature; with that remembrance, misery and inner poverty vanish.
If emotions feel too close, you forgot to just watch—step back from every role and simply observe, and the pain loosens.